29 U.S.C. § 625
Section 625 · Administration
This is § 6 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Ford v. Bernard Fineson Development Center (1996)
Most recently applied in Vaughan v. Anderson Regional Medical Center (February 2017)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The Secretary shall have the power—
(a) Delegation of functions; appointment of personnel; technical assistance
to make delegations, to appoint such agents and employees, and to pay for technical assistance on a fee for service basis, as he deems necessary to assist him in the performance of his functions under this chapter;
(b) Cooperation with other agencies, employers, labor organizations, and employment agencies
to cooperate with regional, State, local, and other agencies, and to cooperate with and furnish technical assistance to employers, labor organizations, and employment agencies to aid in effectuating the purposes of this chapter.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Transfer of Functions
Functions relating to age discrimination administration and enforcement vested by this section in Secretary of Labor or Civil Service Commission transferred to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1978, §2, 43 F.R. 19807, 92 Stat. 3781, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, effective Jan. 1, 1979, as provided by section 1–101 of Ex. Ord. No. 12106, Dec. 28, 1978, 44 F.R. 1053.